- Uchi takes geidan, Shi remains in chudan
- Shi takes 3 steps
- Uchi takes 2.5
- Should be at tomai about 10 cm space between mokuju
- Shi applies seme to omote, small step, slight lowering of centre of gravity
- Should now be close to issoku ito no mai
- As shi applies pressure uchi reacts with a larg-ish covering of omote
- Shi sees the opportunity opening under the armpit of uchi
- Shi removes pressure from uchis blade
- Uchi continues the block movement mostly by straightening the front arm
- Shi strikes shita (underneath) this comes from uchis left side and under the arm. It is still "straight"
- Zanshin starts with a large step back by Shi, mokuju should clear each other by about 5cm
- Zanshin is completed with a covering of Uchi's front kote
- Uchi starts moving back to issoku in chudan and Shi follows
- Steps will be required to return to centre, performed by both (normally 3 tiny steps)
- Both lower the mokuju to Geidan
- Both do 5 small steps back to the starting spot
- Return to chudan
Important points:
- 2.5 steps is 2 normal size steps followed by a half size step, do not just break the distance down into 3 even size steps.
- Shi doesn't make a big drop under the mokuju, the strike should be basically the same as a strike to omote, it just happens to be swept off course a bit by uchi. Maybe a centimetre off course.
- Uchi making the covering movement opens shita. This done with an almost scooping movement of both hands for the initial block, imagine moving the mokuju like you were a forklifter.
- As Shi removes pressure Uchi extends the front arm on about a 45 degree angle to open Shita properly.
- Shi must remember (and Uchi too but mostly a Shi problem in our experience) that the mokuju has a lower viewpoint than their own eyes and can therefore "see" a teeny tiny opening which Shi cannot see visually.
- In a perfect world I think that all of the blocks in the kata by Uchi don't actually contact Shi's weapon in an audible manner, more like Uchi reacts to the seme with a block which Shi has anticipated and so the block never occurs. It is a block against where Uchi thinks Shi is attacking. (TBH this is a concept I need to spend time checking when I am better at this stuff and I think it has a lot of the jukendo meaning of seme in it but will carry across to other stuff as well)
- Almost everything mentioned previously (these are from the same series so we do the same dumb stuff for the common elements)
- Ewa reacts to my geidan, I don't think she is meant to
- My block is not a block, just a kind of acknowledgement of her coming in
- I don't use my back hand for the first bit of the block
- Ewa drop her mokuju way low after my first stage of the block
- Strike ends too far from me
- It looks like I am standing open, not in hanmi while receiving
- Ewa's zanshin step back is not far enough.
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